Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: Matthew Paris called him "the flower of chivalry."
• Miscellaneous: 1206 or 1207; His father gave him to the King in either 1206 or 1207, and he was released in 1212.
• Miscellaneous: 1219, Paris, Île-de-France, France; In 1219 he was in France at the French court in Paris when news arrived of his father's death.
• Miscellaneous: May 1225, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France; He was at a meeting of the Breton nobles in Nantes in May 1225.
• Title(s): 1231; In 1231 he became the Earl of Pembroke upon the death of his older brother, William. He was also Master Marshal, Lord of Longueville and Orbec, Lord of Dinan. He returned to England and sought out the King who was in Wales. He offered to do homage for his inheritance, but Henry, at the suggestion of Hubert de Burgh, Justicar of England, declined, under the plea that the late Earl's widow was pregnant. Richard was ordered to leave the realm within fifteen days, and left for Ireland where his brothers were with an Army. They seized Castle Pembroke, and prepared to enforce his rights. King Henry, fearing open war, accepted his homage and recognized him as the Earl of Pembroke.
• Miscellaneous: Oct 1231; In October 1231 he opposed the King's proposed marriage to a sister of the King of Scots. A year later he was on of the four Earls who became sureties for Hubert de burgh. In early 1233, he led the Barons in appealing to the King to dismiss his foreign advisers. The advisers (from France) drove him into open rebellion, and in August he was proclaimed a traitor and the office of Marshal was declared forfeited. Richard then made an alliance with Llewelym and carried out successful warfare against the royal forces. At the same time the Lacy faction was ravaging Ireland. In February 1233/34, he crossed to Ireland where he took Limerick and recovered some of his castles. Anabortive conference with the rebels at the Curragh of Kildare on 1 April 1234 was followed by a battle in which he was greatly outnumbered and defeated, wounded and captured.
• Religion: say 1233; He was a benefactor to the abbeys of Dunbrothy, St. Aubin des Bois, and Savigny.
• Last Full Review: 28 Apr 2020

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While recovering form his wounds, he was practically murdered by a treacherous surgeon.

Richard married Gervaise de Dinan in 1222. Gervaise died after 21 Dec 1236. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]